2009 - Ice Game

[Steigerwald]

Originally Posted by Mr_I

What was the name of the field surface? Regolith? Something else? (Yes, I'm posting while watching "Who Wants To Be An Engineer")

Yeah, along with low friction wheels in the kit.

1GiantLeap4FRC is the password

[SCROSSLEY-GCEC]

brilliant :O Libby is OBVIOUSLY psychic
that or the GDC did it deliberately because of this thread :S

[DCA Fan]

Wow. Way to go guys. Hahahaha

[Zholl]

Sooo... now that we've more or less proven the ice game theory, how do we go about testing our robots on this? If you look at the rules, it's a gel coated polymer, which I've no idea how to simulate or purchase, and even here in Colorado, ice is a bit impractical right now, considering how expensive ice time is, not to mention scarce. Unfortunately we're in the middle of hockey season (my brother is a bantam player on a CC team), so finding ice time outside of 2am is going to be a nightmare, so that's kind of out the window. Surely someone has an idea? Or maybe I'm totally missing the mark?

[synth3tk]

There are multiple threads discussing this.

http://chiefdelphi.com/forums/showth...t=71033&page=2

The bottom line that I've gathered, though, is you're looking at paying ~$28 per 4x8 sheet or so. Pretty expensive stuff. Good luck.

[MishraArtificer]

Originally Posted by Zholl

Sooo... now that we've more or less proven the ice game theory, how do we go about testing our robots on this? If you look at the rules, it's a gel coated polymer, which I've no idea how to simulate or purchase, and even here in Colorado, ice is a bit impractical right now, considering how expensive ice time is, not to mention scarce. Unfortunately we're in the middle of hockey season (my brother is a bantam player on a CC team), so finding ice time outside of 2am is going to be a nightmare, so that's kind of out the window. Surely someone has an idea? Or maybe I'm totally missing the mark?

Gym floors can get pretty slippery while dusty.

Just sayin'...

[alectronic]

How does first always give such obvious clues, like bills blog, and yet no one can guess them!! Genius!